"And the Birds..."

Last time we heard from Quentin Stoltzfus was 2005, when his band Mazarin released We're Already There, a lovely little record of psych-pop that went overlooked by just about everyone except for the Walkmen, who covered"Another One Goes By" on A Hundred Miles Off. Most of that band joins Stoltzfus for his new project, Light Heat, and from the sounds of "And The Birds...", a single from Light Heat's debut, he's spent a good deal of time in the interim collecting even more instruments to flesh out his obsession with the studio wizardry of the late 60s-- ringing tack pianos, enveloping electric organ drone, triple-decker harmonies, click-clacking hand percussion, to name a few. At it's core, it's a classicist bit of paisley pop, not too far away from what Mazarin once did. And that's a good thing: while some artists thrive in progress, Stoltzfus' music works best when it looks backwards to recapture a lost moment.